If anyone is interested, I can give 3 or 4 folks a quick tour of Edwards AFB and both the NASA Dryden and Air Force Flight Test Center museums. You will need to be a US Citizen and have a photo ID; a drivers' license is fine.

Depending on available time, and your tolerance, we will see 30 or more different aircraft at these world famous test sites. Our tour will take about three hours with an hour commute each way. We will visit both museums and then drive to see two different groups of bone yard aircraft. We won't drive on the flight line, but if there are any interesting aircraft flying, we will have a great view. I am quite knowledgeable about the aircraft and weapons we will see, it will be a fun trip.

The tour will unfortunately be on Friday, 11 August, and I would like to leave the campground by 2 PM, leaving earlier would be better. I expect we will be back at the campground around 7 PM. We are doing the tour on Friday as I need to go pick up a rental Casita for the rally.

Here is a link with some info about Edwards AFB and their museum:http://www.edwards.af.mil/about_edwards/index.html Note that if you want to take the official Edwards tour, you can arrange that through the website, it won't hurt my feelings if you would rather take the official tour.

Hi Thane,
Nancie and I would love to go on the Edwards tour! Is there a lot of walking or is there room for her break a part scooter or walker? Or we can follow in our TV. Last time we were on 58, a B1 and chase plane were landing. Thought he was going to get the A/C! AWESOME!
Do we need to bring any food/other stuff for group things? We would be happy to!
Thanks again for organizing this and if we canassist, please don't hesitate to ask
horsefolk

Unless you have military base access, like a retiree ID, then we will need to all fit inside my Ford Explorer. The back is big enough for a walker, I don't know about a scooter. The temps should be in the high 90s to low 100s so we won't do too much walking. The two museums have inside as well as outside displays; nice and cool inside. One of the sets of grave yard aircraft are not accessable to a walker or scooter. If it is too hot, we can do a lot of the tour without leaving the car.

I'll have a big ice chest for drinks and you can bring snacks. I'll leave your for a bit at the bigger indoor museum while I pick up the Casita, but that shouldn't take more than 45 minutes.

We may be able to do our tour earlier in the day. If we leave the campsite in the morning the temperature will be much cooler in the desert. If someone is arriving on Friday, we'll leave after they get their trailer set up. If everyone is arriving Thursday, we'll leave around 9 or 10 in the morning.

If someone has a TV with three rows of seats, we can take a few more folks with us. I'd need to drive on base and we'll be towing an empty 16 foot Casita back to the campsite.

Hi Thane,
Nancie will NOT be going to Edwards but I DEFINATELY want to go..don't know if spelling correect but you catch the drift.
We'll be arriving Thursday afternoon, is there anything we can do/bring to help?
Chuck

If Nancy can't make it then we should have an open seat (though it may be tight)

I would love to go any time , we hope to get up to the rally on Thursday. Chris doesn't want to go so just me. That is if you have room for me at the rally and on the tour. Ken and Chris Hildner 1979 Fiber Stream